by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 30, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy The endless economic breast-beating and death updates are really becoming quite tiresome: what, economically speaking, happens after our isolation? Interestingly, it appears that economies rebound after wars but don’t after depressions. It remains to be seen...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 23, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy When stocks are volatile, conventional wisdom dictates that you should invest in bricks and mortar, right? Perhaps not, somewhat overexcited predictions are that the US housing market might crash to 29-year lows. The VIX is shorthand for a measure of the...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 21, 2020 | Business, Legal, Practice
A farmer contracts to supply logs to a purchaser after having made the necessary arrangements to automate his tree harvesting activities: he orders the machines. Owing to the closure of borders and factories, following on the corona virus pandemic, these are not...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 16, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Nedbank has revised our GDP for this year down to 0.3% and says that we run a high risk of recession. The South African BER business confidence index has sunk to its lowest level in 20 years: 8 out of 10 respondents are unhappy about current business...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 9, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice A short article, written by Judge Cameron, deals with our prisons system: he says that instead of the retributive approach under the previous regime, this country embraced a restorative approach to offenders and their punishment. This demanded prison...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 2, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice Broke? RAF attorneys were reportedly asked to hand back their un-finalised files by Thursday last week in what appears to be a cost-cutting exercise by the RAF. Insourcing is a theoretical exercise as the expertise to handle this simply does not exist within...
